Is it possible to do Hardware isolation of cortex-m3 from xC

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ippisl
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Is it possible to do Hardware isolation of cortex-m3 from xC

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Let's assume the worst case : a malware program have got control over all the xcores in the xmos-xa(cortex-m3) device.

Another option - they've got control of every xmos xcore except the one dedicated to the AES.

Is it possible to program the device in such a way , so that this malware cannot get control over the cortex-m3, none of it's hardware peripherals , none of it's memory and none of i/o pins dedicated to it ? In other words - i know that   a certain functionality of my device is fully protected ?

Thanks.

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Post by sethu_jangala »

Have a look at the xCORE-XA application notes from the following link:

https://www.xmos.com/support/appnotes

These will give you more information about xCORE-XA.